According to Firearm Chronicles
Everywhere we go, we keep hearing all about how gun stores should be shut down, how they’re not essential businesses and all that. However, many governors–including a surprising number of anti-gunners, to be fair–have determined otherwise. They’ve declared gun stores as essential and they remain open.
While we on the pro-gun side of the debate are delighted by this, the other side isn’t. Then again, this isn’t surprising. Of course, they’d find it upsetting to see gun stores, the bane of their existence, remaining open.
Numerous op-eds have been written talking about how gun stores shouldn’t remain open in the midst of such a public nightmare.
Of course, this is almost universally reflective of the writers’ anti-gun bias and not any real concern over the public health. For example, this letter-to-the-editor in the Baltimore Sun reflects some of the nonsense spewed pretty well:
While I understand the letter writer’s concern about Second Amendment rights, I don’t see Harry Neiderer’s concern for society as a whole during a global pandemic (“Maryland gun stores need to stay open,” April 3). What exactly is the gun going to protect you from when the availability of guns and ammunition contributes greatly to tragic domestic violence and suicide during very trying times when people have limited ability to get away from each other?
Put the “public” in public health emergency and wear a face covering in public with gloves. That’s how you can contribute to slowing the spread of disease. Your gun does nothing to improve that situation but does add the possibility of health care resources being diverted to gun accidents, crime or mass shooting instead of treating disease.
In other words, if people can buy a gun, they’re going to use it to kill someone they supposedly love.
Now, that’s not to say there isn’t any violence that will erupt over that. There likely will be. Yet only a fool thinks a gun is the only way that will happen.
Violence will likely erupt because people are forced to remain in close quarters with one another and in many cases have been for weeks now. They’re doing it in a tense situation in which both parties are powerless to do anything. As a result, tempers fray far more than normal. The usual coping mechanisms are gone. You can’t go to the gym, public parks are closed in many places, there’s nothing you can do to get away from it.